John REDDELL

                       Informant: Bonnie Reddell Idsardi, P.O. Box 343, Okmulgee, OK 74447.  New
    Ozark Cousins, page 179.

    John David has 17 identified children.  Information can be found in
    the Reddell, Riddell, Riddle Trail (copies located in the Pulaski Library.

    John was born in Maryland about 1768.  He moved to North Carolina where he may
    have lived in either Stokes or Rowan County.  Before 1818 he moved westward
    and settled in Union County, Illinois.  in that area he was granted 160 acres
    of land by the federal government.  This land was located in the southwest
    quarter of section ten, township five, range south.  He is listed as road
    overseer for his district there in 1818-1820.  He sold this land in 1828 to
    Shadrick Rackley.

    April 3, 1820 he sold land in Giles County, Tennessee, to Issac Morris that he
    bought on July 20, 1818.  On November 20, 1823, he served on a jury in this
    county.  He was appointead a constable for the same county in February of 1824.
    By a deed dated Feb. 9, 1824 and recorded on July 21st that same year, he
    bought 182 acres of land from Alexander and John McDonald, Richland Creek of
    Giles County.  In Book H, page 265 (Giles County, Tennessee) it is recorded
    that john D. Reddell sold a tract of land to Phillips Ball on Feb. 1, 1827, of
    $500.00.  Then on Beb. 15, 1830, he sold land (apparently that which he bought
    from the McDonald's) to Alexander McDonald.  For this tract, he received
    $1,200.00.
    Mary was his last wife - the first wives are not known.
                  

                       1776 Maryland census

    John Reddell (1730-1800), page 3.
                  

                       1776 Maryland census

    John Reddell (1730-1800), page 3.
                  

                       1776 Maryland census